Jeremy’s birthday

Sometimes in the midst of school starting and the fair, Jeremy’s birthday gets lost.  This year it is both was lost and celebrated. 

He had signed up to ride in the VeloSano (Latin for “swift cure”) Bike for the Cure that he has participated in the past few years.  He rode in honor of so many people, which is hard to come to grips with … how his list keeps getting longer of those he knows affected by cancer. 

This year, his uncle David rode with him.  And I am so thankful.  We have had beautiful weather – almost no rain (which is not good, but does make for being outside nice!) with some comfortable summer days.  However, September 7 was NOT beautiful in Cleveland.  (It actually was kinda nice here though…)  It rained the entire ride.  The wind was super windy.  The temperature was in the 50s.  It was definitely not good riding weather.  He said it made him stay motivated to keep riding knowing that those he were riding in honor of had gone through so much more.  He and David made it, but it was not easy.

    

They got home around 3pm, unloaded the bikes, and then Jeremy realized that he did not have his wallet.  He had left it on the bench where he had been eating after the ride.  So, instead of going to the fair as we had planned, we all went back up to Cleveland to get his wallet and celebrate his birthday with some good food!  He chose Mabel’s BBQ.  It was delicious! (Some lady really wanted to take this picture of us with our menus)

    

    

We walked around that area of town a bit, but mostly ate and came home.

    

I made dirt pudding for him on his birthday which Madison enjoyed with him between volleyball games, youth group, practices, and everything else.  The forgotten wallet was a blessing in disguise because we were actually together to enjoy each other!